Non-Believer

Crayon and felt-tip control.

But wait.....there's more....!

It may be cheaper than last year but hopefully it won't leave us with a £225k and counting headache...

Moorhouse digging into hospitality and airport parking matters too. Let's see what bullshit Crookall's minions invent and give him to answer in respect of the latter.

Or £100M ferry terminals, extra funding for promenades that don't remotely resemble what was planned and promised. Or a lack of oversight that allows Dr's. to be belittled, leading to £3M payoffs. Not to mention the £100,000 legal expenses, including futile appeals. Or gas powered vehicle fleets that can't be used here. Chewing gum removers. Huge payoffs for civil servants who have patently failed in their duties and responsibilities. They are just the recent ones.

The Steamie have only just found out that the vessel that will primarily using the facility requires modification to allow it to do so, with further trials then to follow. That's not the Steamie's fault, it's indicative of a lack of consultation and collaboration with the SPCo during the Dock project.

The present town hall was constructed 1998 - 2002 and there was a big rates hike at the time to cover the cost of construction,I remember one contributor to letters in the local press saying Ramsey Rates were now a, "King's Ransom". Still awaiting the 2023 accounts.....

Probably belongs to a first floor Town Hall employee...

Meaning that it boils down to the same thing and it ain't nowt to do with saving the planet, certainly as a priority. It's primarily to do with funding fat-arse pensions that far too many didn't contribute to, basically. And the expensive pipe dreams of elected egos.

You've perfectly encapsulated it yourself as to why the technology is ultimately impractical. Hydrogen will be the way to go, or "something" that hasn't been uncovered yet.

It's amazing how inquisitive Chris Thomas becomes when he's not a (DOI) Minister ...

However, it would be a move towards the much-vaunted saving of the environment which is what we're all supposed to be aiming for now. So the solution would be for Govt to be less dependant on that revenue from petrol, vat and appropriate tax. But we all know what that would mean so it won't happen. The "planet" comes second best on IoM.

I thought recent stats had shown a big drop in the number of school-age kids, or is Peel bucking the trend?

And Alex foresees sunlit uplands for hard-pressed electricity consumers...

Will we be getting visits from the electric supercar clubs too?

Over 13k visitors to Gaia apparently...any advance on 13k?

If there were to be any sort of investigation into this, it would almost undoubtedly prove that there had been a total lack of political and executive oversight and control of IL, largely because none of them had the balls to stand up to his ego and arrogance. However, some of these people will still be in post so we'll spare them any embarrassment and not have an investigation. What will need to be looked at is the size and scale of the bus fleet to include the reputed <100 Merc minibuses scattered around the island, some of which never seem to turn a wheel if RCH area is anything to go by.

No, there was no Treasury or political oversight. This is a news report clipping from the post-election Budgetary promises of Alf in October 2021 where what had been going on in BV was laid bare. Nobody was properly monitoring or approving what Longworth was spending. A few months back during his DOI tenure, Chris Thomas tried to skirt his way around this too, I remember.

Clearly not as serious as the psychological condition of one who sits in the Traf calling for the return of smoking in enclosed public areas and fantasising about David Ashford's political abilities (if not other fantasies about Ashford). Britons were sold a pack of lies, pure and simple, in order to benefit a very small percentage of British society. They will be paying the costs for many years to come.

Yes....Britain is experiencing it now. The one question that my EU friends/rels repeatedly ask is, "Why did Britain do it? Why subject the country and economy to all the division and economic upheaval and grief, expense and extra administration?" So I trotted out the standard reply of sovereignty, self-determination, independence, blue passports etc. All at any cost. Their unvarying response is, "But we've still got ours while we're in the EU without all the misery". Then they start shaking their heads and laughing.

That reads like a precursor to a review of services (cuts) to everywhere outside of Willaston, Pully and Anagh Coar...

I was in Europe a couple of weeks ago visiting friends and family (2 countries). They are quite happy to be in the EU and feel quite happy in its future. Moreover, they regard the UK as a laughing stock following Brexit, in no uncertain terms. "Insular, backward and xenophobic" were just three of the adjectives used, this by people with close UK and family connections.

Middle of last month, I got from the Sea Terminal to Manchester Airport for less than £35. £26.50 to Liverpool (Manannan, footpassenger, single fare) and £7 for a train ticket from Lime St to the Airport, booked via Trainpal. I walked from the pier head to Lime St.

Don't forget, only a short while ago we were informed that they needed another 54...